Meanings (ES + gloss)
abrasión • rasponazo
A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.
pelea • piñada
A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
He got in a scrape with the school bully.
aprieto • apuro
An awkward set of circumstances.
I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.
Stuart made us all laugh - his mischievous stories were told throughout his career and in later days featured some very senior politicians and railway managers. He certainly got in…
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
raspar
To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.
That car often scrapes the shallowest of humps because of its low ground clearance.
chollar • choyar • raer • raspar
To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
She tripped on a rock and scraped her knee.
We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads.
Phrases
bescrapebow and scrapeoutscraperake and scrapescrape acquaintancescrape alongscrape and bowscrape at the bottom of the barrelscrape byscrape downscrape offscrape pastscrape someone off the ceilingscrape the barrelscrape the bottom of the barrelscrape throughscrape togetherscrape upscrape-goodscrape-pennyscraperscreen-scrape